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  • Riot Games to Pay $10 Million to Settle Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

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    Riot Games to Pay $10 Million to Settle Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

    The League of Legends developer will pay out $10 million in settlement.

    Riot Games, the development studio behind League of Legends, has agreed to pay out at least $10 million to women that have worked at the studio over the past five years. This is part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit over alleged gender discrimination within the studio.

    This lawsuit began back in November 2018 after two women filed a suit over violations of the California Equal Pay act. The...
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  • Current and Former Employees Sue Riot Games for Gender Discrimination

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    Current and Former Employees Sue Riot Games for Gender Discrimination

    A class-action lawsuit has kicked off against Riot Games, publisher of League of Legends, that accuses the studio of gender-based discrimination. The lawsuit, began by one former employee and one current employee say that the studio has a "men-first" environment.

    According to Kotaku, the lawsuit claims that the two employees, both female, have been "denied equal pay and found their careers stifled because they are women." The suit continues on to say that the employees have "seen t heir working conditions negatively impacted because of the ongoing sexual harassment, misconduct, and bias which predominate the sexually-hostile working environment of Riot Games." The lawsuit also claims that Riot has violated California's Equal Pay Act and law against gender-based discrimination at the workplace....
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